Stem and Stone, and: The Writer in Exile

"Stem and Stone"

Look at stem.Look at stone.Stem has a flower.Stone is alone.Stem bends a little.Stone doesn't bend.Stem blooms and dies.Stone has no end.

Stone has no end.Stem lives again.

"The Writer in Exile"

Twenty-nine girls liked Chuff.Not one liked poor Glugg.They looked at Glugg and said, "O Glugg,You have a mugly ug."

Said Glugg, "Okay, I'll go awayto some far distant land.There will I write a comical bookwhich you won't understand."

"O Glugg," said the twenty-nine girls,"we'd love a comical book.When you have finished writing it,do let us take a look."

Glugg packed his bag and moved awayto a house where he could think.It was called the Haunted Ink Bottle House,cause it had an inky stink.

Glugg never asked the twenty-nine girls,to come and read his book.But when he read it to himself,he laughed until he shook.